LONDON – Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died, her publisher ...

Mantel picked up the prize, one of the highest profile awards in English-language literature, for “Bring up the Bodies,” part two of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, at a ceremony at London’s Guildhall.

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Five centuries after he ruled the roost in Tudor England, Henry VIII’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell is playing to packed houses in London in two plays based on ...